Aaron Lanterman

Bio

Aaron D. Lanterman is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, which he joined in 2001. In 2004, he was chosen to hold the Demetrius T. Paris Professorship, a special position for the development of young faculty. He finished a triple major consisting of a B.A. in Music, B.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 1993. He stayed on for graduate school, receiving an M.S. (1995) and D.Sc. (1998) in Electrical Engineering. His graduate work focused on target recognition for infrared imagery as part of the U.S. Army Center for Imaging Science. After graduation, he joined the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he managed a project on radar systems exploiting "illuminators of opportunity." His other research interests include target tracking, image reconstruction, and music synthesis. He received the Richard M. Bass (2006) and W. Marshall Leach Jr. (2015) Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards, and was a 2009 Hesburgh Teaching Fellow. He has served as associate editor for radar for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.